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The 70th birthday Stephen Hawking symposium
I feel extremely privileged to be able to attend a symposium to mark the 70th birthday of physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, a brilliant cosmologist acclaimed globally whose life has surpassed medical expectations. The remarkable Prof Hawking was told in 1963 that...
Government reforms ignore trans-racial adoption
It's the best Christmas news for any child languishing in care and waiting to be placed with loving, adoptive parents - the announcement today that the government is replacing its crippling bureaucratic process with a new system. Proposals include forming an expert...
Downgraded by Ticketmaster
I am still waiting to hear back from Ticketmaster after they double booked the Katherine Jenkins concert tickets I purchased several weeks ago as a Christmas present for my music loving pa--in-law. I had an email from them last week offering an upgrade, so I wasn't...
Have you tried dowsing?
This was the first video I ever recorded and edited, it was very much a test video, and surprisingly it remains my most successful on YouTube, with almost 42,000 hits and 73 comments. Not bad for a trial run! I recorded a dowsing demonstration at one of my favourite...
Families describe losing loved ones to sepsis
I am struck by the generous selflessness of bereaved families who genuinely do not want others to suffer like them after losing loved ones - especially from deaths which they believe were preventable. They have offered to provide case studies about their traumatic...
Jeffrey Archer’s auctioneering tips – how to get money from the rich
Many charities in the UK are £42 million richer thanks to the auctioneering skills of Jeffrey Archer. Today he shared his tips about how to get money from the rich at a fundraising conference on this theme. In the last 30 years, Jeffrey's "hobby" has become...
Medics petition government to make sepsis a clinical priority
The sudden death of Brazilian soccer legend Socrates from sepsis, blood poisoning following an infection, comes at the same time that I am promoting the vital work of the UK Sepsis Trust, which is petitioning the government to make sepsis a clinical priority by...
Will the government’s life sciences plan find a cure for Alzheimer’s?
Why isn't there a cure for Alzheimer's disease? And could David Cameron's desire to encourage clinical trials with medical research companies in NHS hospitals provide a much needed opportunity to provide this desperately needed cure? However, I share concerns about...
Are there transmissible cancers in humans?
I was privileged to meet award winning scientist Elizabeth Murchison earlier this year when she explained to me her research which is dedicated to saving a fierce looking Marsupial creature known as the Tasmanian devil from possible extinction in the next 20 -30 years...